Stereotypes of women abound in literature. The mother stereotype is the most important of all other stereotypes. Mary Gordon, an Irish American writer has depicted a mother named Maria in her novel Pearl. The mother who did not mother her daughter properly and the retaliation showed by the daughter towards her mother is dealt in the light of the “mother” stereotype based on Mary Anne Ferguson's “Images of Women in Literature”. Various other interpretations are also dealt with, in the light of the concept of a mother